All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
I just realized that i did not introduce myself, so, ok let me , back up. My name is jodie allen, and im a visiting assistant professor here, at swanee, and im also working as a consultant on the slavery project. Going back to the panel, im asking them to answer the question thats in our program , and that is does history matter to the future of the 15th amendment . And im going to ask them to ruminate on that a little bit, and then we will be opening up for q a with the audience. Okay . So i dont know who would like to start. Ok, thank you. I think about history and it , reminds me of the african word sancofa. The african word, and it means you have to know your past to understand the present to plan for your future. So when it comes to the 15th amendment what weve learned today and ive learned a great , deal from these wonderful panelists, that we have to understand the intent behind the 15th amendment, the history that gave rise to it, the effect of it those people who opposed and t
My name is jodie allen. Im a visiting assistant professor here at sewanee for this score year. I am also working as a consultant on the slavery project. Going back to the panel, i am asking them to answer the question in our program and that is, does history matter to the future of the 15th amendment . I will ask them to think on that and then we will open up for questions and answers with the audience. I dont know who would like to start. Thank you. I think about history and it reminds me of sancofa means you have to know your past to understand your present, to plan for the future. When it comes to the 15th amendment, what we have learned today, and ive learned a great deal from these panelists, we have to understand the intent behind the 15th amendment, the history that gave rise to it, the effect of it. Those people who opposed it and the mechanisms that were put in place as obstacles so we can better understand today the Voter Suppression we are dealing with, the need for White Su
Honesty and no naivete, and the way you helped conduct Foreign Policy during a period of enormous crisis in dwrunt states, constitutional crisis, people on the streets and dealing with one of the most intractable problems, i really must say it was an honor to serve with such great men, and thank you very much for sharing your perspective with all of us and putting it down for history. I think people can learn a lot from what youve done for your nation. With that, thank you very much. [ applause ] president obama visits new orleans on thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. You can watch live coverage of the president ial visit beginning at 5 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan. President nixon appointed four justices to the Supreme Court and others who were rejected by is senate. Kevin mcmahon is the author of nixons court. Justice Antonin Scalia makes introductory remarks a this the event that took place in the Supreme Court chamber. This is 45 minutes. Good evening. My
Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef